See also: 2003.182.246 View of the "sham battle" at City Park Race Track. Visible is a smoke filled field with boxes stacked in the center of the field. Smoke is due to hand grenades, as per the photographer's notes, demonstrating "use by...

View of the "Sham Battle" at City Park Race Track. Shown is a smoke-filled field. At the center of the image is a photographer with a camera mounted on a tripod. Cylinders, possibly smoke bombs or explosives, are stacked in pyramids on wooden...

View of the "sham battle" at City Park Race Track. The performance was staged on Wednesday, February 25 and again the next day by the Chemical Warfare Service of the Army under the auspices of Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers Bureau of the...

View of the "sham battle" held at the City Park Race Course. Shown is a smoke-filled field with photographers and cameras on tripods in view. Cylinders, possibly smoke bombs, are stacked in pyramids on wooden platforms. See also: 2003.0182.246

View of the sham battle at City Park Race Track that shows an explosion and smoke in a field due to detonation of Livens projector bombs, as per photographer's note on original sleeve. According to the Times Picayune of February 22, 1920, "Livens...